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Monday, June 16, 2025
Time Topic Faculty
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Registration, Log-in, Networking, Poster Presentations, and Exhibitors
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks Eric Friedlander
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Opening Keynote Address: Harm Reduction in the 21st Century & Beyond:An In-Depth Review of Potential Public Health Implications Shameka Parrish-Wright
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Break
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM Lunch and Learn - Investing in Kentucky’s Public Health Workforce - A Pathway Approach Ashley Carroll
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM Break
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Session 1A: Kentucky Youth Have Something to Say About Substance Use Shreeta Waldon
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Session 1B: Hepatitis C Elimination: Where do you fit in? Katie Gardner
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Session 1C: Experience of Patients Helped by the Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC) Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Improvement Initiative Monica Clouse
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Session 2A: Substance Use and Wound Care: What's Needed to Save a Life Tasha Turner-Bicknell
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Session 2B: Personal and Professional Barriers of Peer Support Specialist Experiences Shauna O'nan Traylor
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM Session 2C: Opioid Abatement Funding : The Explanation and Possibilities Lauren Carr
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Lessons Learned and Closing Remarks

Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time Topic Faculty
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Opening Message Caitlyn Hood
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Break
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Session 3A: Sex Work in Harm Reduction Cyndee Clay
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Session 3B: 2025 Informing Response: Kentucky’s Drug Overdose Trends Update Mira Mirzaian
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Session 3C: Harm Reduction Community Advocacy and Policy Discussions at the Local and State Level Stephanie Johnson
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Break
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Session 4A: Naloxone Distribution from the Ground Up a Local Approach to Saturation Chris Smith
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Session 4B: Engaging with People with Lived Experience through Community Advisory Boards, Outreach, and Workplace Settings April Young
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Session 4C: Kentucky - Natural Disaster Preparedness and Strategies Jody Jaggers
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Closing Keynote Address: America's Decades-Long Opioid Crisis and the Radical Transformation of the Illicit Drug Supply: Implications for Public Health Jon Zibbell
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Harm Reduction Summit Awards and Closing Remarks